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Location: Burbank | Of all the monster creations I have seen, this is the worst! It doesn't deserve to be put in the for sale section because I would not allow any of my friends here to buy this or there may be a need for a group intervention!
There is nothing right about this guitar/bass or whatever it is.
http://cgi.ebay.com/OVATION-STAGG-HYBRID-AC-ELEC-BASS_W0QQitemZ180344758316QQcmdZViewItemQQptZGuitar?hash=item180344758316&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1205%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A 12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318%7C301%3A1%7C293%3A1%7C294%3A50 |
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Location: Brighty in Blighty | WHAT THE F***!  |
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Location: NW of Philadelphia | OK...
Why are the strings NOT on the centerline of the guitar?
Uhhhh...
Why is there a 6 string pickup on 4 string bass?
Ummmm...
Why would you sell it (and show you have no clue) and not just part it out?
Pfffftttt...
Why? |
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Location: Chicago | If mental illness can be expressed in a guitar, this is IT. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | With all due respect, how do you know it's not a great sounding and playing guitar?
Our initial visual clues can very much bias our objectivity. Can you imagine the reaction when Josh took the podium for the worlds first introduction to the ovation plastic backed guitar in 1966. I am sure many in the audience were thinking "WTF is THAT ???" |
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Location: NJ | some people have way too much time on their hands |
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Location: Chicago | Mine was an aesthetic reaction. I actually love the beauty of wooden and carbon roundbacks. This smacks of Frankenstein. |
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Location: Texas | I don't know if the OFC has an annual contest for most outlandish Frankovation find, but if so, I think the 2009 prize can be claimed early by Mario. ;-)
Is that darker area a wood veneer or contact paper covering up where the original bridge pulled up?
Wow, that is… interesting?
BTW: There appears to be an actual Ovation in the background of one of the photos… |
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Location: Texas | OMG, that's an 8694!!!
They are impossible to find and the sweetest-sounding stringed instrument in the known universe!
I bought one of those new when they came out and paid well over $6,000. I'll never sell mine, even though they are so rare that I've had offers of more than three times what I paid for it…
Someone better grab it fast!!!
yours truly,
taibrekrul
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Location: Flahdaw | You'd think, somewhere on that monstrocity, he'd have found a place to glue some crushed, blue velour. |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | First time I've ever seen a guitar wearing a Dickey :rolleyes: |
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Location: New Hampsha | I would probably have given him $99 for the original 12-string with the bad neck....
That looks like he used lauan plywood for the veneer. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Originally posted by standing:
Is that darker area a wood veneer or contact paper covering up where the original bridge pulled up? I think that the Lighter wood is contact paper.
It sure ain't book-matched and you can see a mysterious line in the photo of the 'trapeze' tailpiece.
I ain't sure about the darker stuff, but it is probably contact paper too.
Or he is really good with wood around the sound-hole.
Ya' gotta give him credit for ingenuity.
[I made a guitar outta scrap-wood and rubber-bands when I was around five years-old :p ] |
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Location: Texas | I bet they laughed at Ellas Otha Bates' guitar at first too… |
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Location: Upper Left USA | First of all, I didn't do it and we ain't related... closely!
Secondly, it was still cheaper than therapy or a divorce, you go confused-carpenter-man! |
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Location: Reisterstown, Maryland | Ok, let me get this straight: this guy took a 12-String Ovation and turned it into a 4-string Bass with a Stagg neck?
Can't believe somebody would destroy an O like that......I'm in tears :(
Anita |
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Location: Texas | Not to mention wasting perfectly good contact paper… |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | I was ok with it until I got to the pic's of the neck heel...
Now I have to agree, this is just plain wrong... |
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Location: enid, ok | Ditto Dobro and Mr. Big. |
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Location: Reisterstown, Maryland | Originally posted by standing:
Not to mention wasting perfectly good contact paper… Awwww, geez now I'm hysterical....... ;)
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This one takes the cake!
